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Comment by bbojan | Hacker News Reader

If Windows is working for you "without a hassle", you must be using some version that us mortals can only dream of.

What hassle do you have these days?

Yeah, I don't use peripherals as it's only a gaming machine (I don't see other reason to use Windows) but it's working as intended for years.

Activation, for example. An activated and running Windows system can turn into a nagging SOB by something as simple as enabling a motherboard's Ethernet adapter in BIOS.

A level of detail I value is that none of that BS is baked into systems I use. Doesn't matter whether those who did not do so were paid for it or not.

I didn’t even have to reactivate after changing my MB. I never had to reactivate an activated Windows 10 in general.

I had a new mobo broken in 1 week and replaced it with the same model and it ended up license being invalid despite the mobo being the exact same model.

I had to make a phone call since none of the methods Windows or the internet suggested worked and that phone literally took 30 min to reactivate my license again. That wasn't fun.

Had this happen to me after installing a secondary SSD. Windows was deactivated, and wouldn't reactivate. I ended up having to use the Windows Restore tool before I could activate again. Having to reinstall all of your programs is never fun.

If only there was a way to get LTSC as a non-institutional customer and a way to activate it.

(wink wink)

I also don't get about this complaint about Windows. I had as much problems with as my Macbook...which is almost always never.

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